FarmVille Sneak Peek: Santa Cat, Yakut Horse, Silver Rabbit et al

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Just in case you were ever fearful of Zynga being done with the Holidays in FarmVille, stop it. Now. FarmVille Freak has found a slew of unreleased items in the game for us to ogle. This time around, we have the Candy Cane Chicken, a beautifully colored hen with striped tail feathers, and a cute, twitchy Silver Rabbit that looks almost as if its wearing camouflage. Rounding out the list are the Yakut Horse and Foal, the unofficial Fabio of the horse world, and a fittingly festive Santa Cat with red cap and bow. While it's unsure when exactly these items will be released, I imagine they will be released sometime before Christmas considering two of these animals are holiday-themed.

[Image Credit: FarmVille Freak]

Find the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

What do you think of the soon-to-be-released animals? Which one will you be going for first when they finally make way into the game?

FarmVille Sneak Peek: CityVille promotion coming to your farm soon?

FarmVille-Cityville item
FarmVille will soon get another taste of the city in one of Zynga's infamous cross promotions. While we covered this still unreleased item a few weeks ago, our friends at FarmVille Freak have found more images confirming that this CityVille promotional item will more than likely hit FarmVille soon. In addition to an image of the item itself, the blog found promotional artwork that will likely be placed in the game as pop ups.

However, we still haven't an idea in the slightest as to when or how this item will be implemented. But if you look closely at the item, it looks as if the Cow and Chicken are plotting a building design. With that said, we can imagine that players will be sent into CityVille on a quest that involves either what FarmVille players know best, farming, or creating a building of some sort. However, this is purely speculation. We'll have to wait and see what Zynga has cooking for another journey into the city.

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Pig Breeding Coming Soon

Here's something that should make animal-lovers in FarmVille very, very happy. Remember when Community Manager Lexilicious told us that an exciting change would be coming to the Pig Pen feature in the game? Well, it looks like that feature will be Pig Breeding, and it looks to work the same way as Sheep Breeding, in that you'll need bottles to grow the Piglets that are born.

While yes, some of the text on the above window does say "Lamb," this is likely a place-holder issue, as Zynga has been known to use the same formatting for different features after simply changing the text, which clearly hasn't been finished here yet.

Any other details about Pig Breeding are still up in the air, but for now you can always prepare by saving your bottles, so that you can have a bunch of cute little piggies running around your land (ok, maybe not running, but looking just adorable while standing still).

[Image Credit: FV Nation]

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Next Mystery Game looks to offer wild animals as prizes

While nothing's official, we believe that we have discovered the contents of the upcoming Mystery Game, which will launch tomorrow evening in FarmVille. This Mystery Game looks to contain six new wild, exotic, or at least unique animals. There's a Marmoset, Prairie Dog, Guinea Pig, Koala, Miniature Goat and Meerkat here, and since they all seem to not have any other overarching theme, it would make sense that they would be Mystery Game items, and not those simply released in the store.

While there's no guarantee that this will actually be the lineup, we can make a guess as to how many Farm Cash these items would cost - roughly 16-20 Farm Cash per dart would make the most sense. We'll make sure to let you know if this is the set we eventually see in the game, so keep checking back.

Would you play a Mystery Game in FarmVille that contained these animals?

FarmVille Sneak Peek: Birthday Chicken, Balloon House and other birthday goodies

If anything, we won't be able to say that Zynga let FarmVille's second birthday go on without event, as we've discovered more unreleased images of animals and decorations alike that have been themed to celebrate the big event. First, a new Birthday Chicken comes equipped with a great party hat, and will even lay new Party-themed (Birthday themed?) Mystery Eggs. No news yet as to what those eggs will contain.

Next, we have items like the Balloon House, which floats in the air and instantly reminds us of Pixar's Up! For some of the other items, the balloon motif keeps going, as we see a Birthday Table adorned with balloons on either end, and even a Gnome and a Sheep floating via the help of balloons as well. To round things out, it looks like we'll be able to provide the entertainment for this birthday party by dressing our avatars up as clowns. There are two clown costumes here, and neither appear to have any gender information related to them, so you'll be able to buy both either way if you so choose.

It's likely that these items will launch in FarmVille's marketplace later this weekend (perhaps as early as tomorrow evening), so keep checking back with us as we give you the pricing details and other information on how to add them all to your farm.

Check out the rest of our FarmVille Second Birthday coverage right here. >

What do you think of these new Birthday themed items? Will you buy a clown costume for your avatar, or are you more concerned with snatching as many of those Mystery Eggs as you can?